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Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

In this experiment, young ecologists will learn about a type of edge effect: how trees and plants at the edge of a forest can act as a weed filter.

Magnets vary in strength. Have your young scientist figure out which kind of magnet is the strongest when you have him conduct this attractive experiment.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

This science project encourages students to investigate the Mozart Effect, the idea that classical music promotes learning.

This science fair project teaches kids experimental design and how to test if subjects can really sense if they are being watched.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

This project determines what category of person is most likely to be ticklish.

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

Let your fourth grade chef mix up butter and sugar with scientific principles about different states of matter, and get delicious toffee, too.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

Explore the chemistry of latex polymers with this outrageous, hilarious science activity.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Your child will learn science and make a fun new malleable toy with this balloon sandbag science experiment.

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Deck the halls with last season's Christmas lights for a spectacular and electrifying science activity.

In this activity, students will create a stop motion animation by creating a clay figure and taking a series of digital photographs.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

This is a fantastic and easy science experiment where kids will learn about elasticity by testing how high bouncy balls of different materials can bounce.

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

This science fair project idea examines whether the colors of the spectrum respond differently in the thermal aspect when radiated by the sun.

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

This science fair project focuses on a polymer called hydrogel super absorbent crystal which absorbs water, swelling to many times its original size.

This science fair project idea determines if the color of light affects the growth of plants.

Science fair project that examines how to grow bacteria in a controlled setting, using simple materials from around the home.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.